Mourad De Clerck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > I do notice a pattern with more and less "complicated"/cpu intensive > traffic: using http (wget) I manage to finish doing the transfer of the > same reasonably big file. With scp I only manage to get to 90% of that > file before it freezes - I should still test whether I can get a http > transfer to lock up if I use a (much) bigger file.
wget goes faster, right ? Do you have some vmstat 1 output at hand for it ? [...] > > Unrelated: have you checked the link setting ? > > ethtool reports "Link detected: yes" and so does my switch. Ok but can you set correctly the link with the command which was told to fail in you first mail ? The patch could fix it. [...] > shuttle:~# scp hell:/srv/bigfile.bin . > bigfile.bin 90% 155MB 17.5MB/s 00:00 ETA Can you try something like: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=1000 | ssh -c blowfish hell dd of=/tmp/1000m.bin May I assume that the freeze locks everything (keyboard, mouse, led) beyond the scp command itself ? -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html